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ECC-2:1 I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with
mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also [is]
vanity.
ECC-2:2 I said of laughter, [It is] mad: and of mirth, What
doeth it?
ECC-2:3 I sought in mine heart to give myself unto wine, yet
acquainting mine heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly,
till I might see what [was] that good for the sons of men, which
they should do under the heaven all the days of their life.
ECC-2:4 I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me
vineyards:
ECC-2:5 I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in
them of all [kind of] fruits:
ECC-2:6 I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood
that bringeth forth trees:
ECC-2:7 I got [me] servants and maidens, and had servants born
in my house; also I had great possessions of great and small
cattle above all that were in Jerusalem before me:
ECC-2:8 I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar
treasure of kings and of the provinces: I gat me men singers and
women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, [as] musical
instruments, and that of all sorts.
ECC-2:9 So I was great, and increased more than all that were
before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me.
ECC-2:10 And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them,
I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in
all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour.
ECC-2:11 Then I looked on all the works that my hands had
wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and,
behold, all [was] vanity and vexation of spirit, and [there was]
no profit under the sun.
ECC-2:12 And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and
folly: for what [can] the man [do] that cometh after the king?
[even] that which hath been already done.
ECC-2:13 Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light
excelleth darkness.
ECC-2:14 The wise man's eyes [are] in his head; but the fool
walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event
happeneth to them all.
ECC-2:15 Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool,
so it happeneth even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then I
said in my heart, that this also [is] vanity.
ECC-2:16 For [there is] no remembrance of the wise more than of
the fool for ever; seeing that which now [is] in the days to
come shall all be forgotten. And how dieth the wise [man]? as
the fool.
ECC-2:17 Therefore I hated life; because the work that is
wrought under the sun [is] grievous unto me: for all [is] vanity
and vexation of spirit.
ECC-2:18 Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the
sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after
me.
ECC-2:19 And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise [man] or a
fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have
laboured, and wherein I have showed myself wise under the sun.
This [is] also vanity.
ECC-2:20 Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of
all the labour which I took under the sun.
ECC-2:21 For there is a man whose labour [is] in wisdom, and in
knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured
therein shall he leave it [for] his portion. This also [is]
vanity and a great evil.
ECC-2:22 For what hath man of all his labour, and of the
vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?
ECC-2:23 For all his days [are] sorrows, and his travail grief;
yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.
ECC-2:24 [There is] nothing better for a man, [than] that he
should eat and drink, and [that] he should make his soul enjoy
good in his labour. This also I saw, that it [was] from the hand
of God.
ECC-2:25 For who can eat, or who else can hasten [hereunto],
more than I?
ECC-2:26 For [God] giveth to a man that [is] good in his sight
wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth
travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to [him that
is] good before God. This also [is] vanity and vexation of
spirit.
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